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Thursday, July 06, 2017

Amelia Earhart claim: not impressive

The fuss being made online and on the Un-History Channel is over one newly discovered photo. It shows a woman, her back to the camera, and a man who resembles her navigator Fred Noonan. While the man looks like Noonan, and short-haired women wearing pants were a bit unusual, we don't even know the date of the photo. This atoll in the Marshall Islands was unreachable with the fuel Earhart had, and the people in the photo are not under arrest or confinement.... Just not impressed. Too many questions are raised, and none have good answers.

UPDATE: It appears the photo is dated 1935, which confirms it's a mistake to link it to Earhart. .